2008–09 Scottish Premier League

Four teams qualified for the new Europa League: Hearts and Aberdeen via league position, Falkirk via the Scottish Cup, and Motherwell by the Fair Play initiative.Leaders Rangers travelled to Tannadice to play Dundee United knowing that a win would secure the title.Meanwhile, Celtic needed to win their final match of the season against Hearts at Celtic Park and hope that Rangers failed to win to clinch the title.In the end, Rangers achieved this comfortably, courtesy of a 3–0 victory with goals scored by Kyle Lafferty, Pedro Mendes and the league's top goalscorer, Kris Boyd, clinching their first title in 4 years.Last updated: 24 May 2009Source: BBC Sport Archived 6 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine [73]
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